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see, you read that as a joke, but if i write it like this:

suddenly it seems sincere.

and then you end up with text pasted over pictures everyone recognizes, and then after that it’s all political cartoons.

my interest was more the incidental associations added through the theoreticaly neutral act of screenshotting stuff from a given (or even the same) media platform

conversely, posting images from other social media sites usually (not always) feels like it could be a recommendation - depending on the ‘status’ of the site. twitter is p neutral, so there’s kind of two possibilities: either it’s someone you’re unlikely to have heard of, in which case you’re probably praising their tweet (usually to say it’s a good joke), or it’s a famous person saying something in which case it reflects on their character somehow.

(also this is ‘as we’d receive it on tumblr’, but tangentially i’ve seen a weird thing in that regard where a twitter user posted a screenshot of a tweet that they’d copied from a tumblr post lol)

reddit, it kinda depends in the same way, though i think reddit users are collectively generally held in less regard so it’s probably a case of ‘look at what this idiot on reddit said’.

pornhub (I think that’s what the orange one is?) is held in even less regard, so much so that ‘look at what this idiot on pornhub said’ is rarely worth pointing out, so it kind of wraps back round to the point of ‘if it’s worth screenshotting, it’s probably actually good’.

i don’t actually know what that blue one is. i thought maybe metafilter or something, but it didn’t look like that when i checked.

bash.org is a joke repository so that’s definitely gonna be presented as ‘check out this good joke’.

fb messenger is necessarily more or less anonymous - so the person sending the message might stand in as a ‘stock character’, such as ‘my mum’.

Why do all the black hash tags no longer exist?

And yet we still have all of these…

This shell script utilizes the excellent tumblr_backup.py and makes it do exactly what I want it to do – and most likely, that’s what you want it to do as well.

The script downloads the current versions of the required Python scripts, backups one or multiple Tumblr blogs to date-prefixed folders (e.g. 2014-09-17_neondust.tumblr.com), and subsequently removes the downloaded software automatically.

It runs out-of-the-box on any recent version of Mac OS X and most Linux distributions, you can configure it using the variables at the top of the file, and there’s a quick guide at the bottom of this post. If there are any errors, make sure you have Python 2.6 or newer installed.

(The code below won’t show up on your dashboard or in your RSS reader. View this post on my blog to see it.)

In case you have no prior experience with the command line, here’s a step-by-step guide:

Click the “view raw” link above and save that file as backup_tumblr.sh on your Desktop.

Open backup_tumblr.sh in a text editor and edit the BLOGS variable according to the instructions in the file.

Open your terminal emulator (Terminal.app on Mac OS X).

Run the script: Type bash ~/Desktop/backup_tumblr.sh and press Enter. You can abort the backup at any time by pressing ctrl+C (this might take a few seconds).

—

#!/bin/bash

# http://neondust.tumblr.com/post/97723922505/simple-tumblr-backup-script-for-mac-os-x-and-linux # https://gist.github.com/doersino/7e3e5db591e42bf543e1

# BLOGS is a space-separated list of the blogs you want to backup. You can omit # the “.tumblr.com” part if you want. BLOGS=“_________.tumblr.com” # OUT is the directory where the backups will be stored. For each blog, a date- # prefixed subdirectory will be created here. OUT=“$HOME/Desktop” # TEMP is the directory where the required software will be cached. It will be # created and removed automatically. TEMP=“$OUT/.backup_tumblr_temp” # Everything below this line should just work™.

# the cleanup function needs to be defined at the top so we can call it whenever # the user chooses to abort tb_clean_up() { printf “Cleaning up… ” rm -r “$TEMP” printf “done\n” exit $1 }

# setup printf “Setting environment up… ” trap “tb_clean_up 1” INT PATH=$TEMP:$PATH PYTHONPATH=$TEMP:$PYTHONPATH printf “done\n”

# download required software printf “Downloading required software… ” mkdir -p $TEMP curl -sS “https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bbolli/xmltramp/master/xmltramp.py” > “$TEMP/xmltramp.py” curl -sS “https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bbolli/tumblr-utils/master/tumblr_backup.py” > “$TEMP/tumblr_backup” chmod 744 “$TEMP/tumblr_backup” printf “done\n”

# this is where the magic happens for BLOG in $BLOGS do tumblr_backup –outdir “$OUT/$(date +%F)_$BLOG” $BLOG done

I was just semi-complaining that I was still looking for a decent way to backup my +6k posts without having to use paid services or even just wordpress (which has an import from tumblr tool that asks for permission to access your blog and also make posts), when I decided to actually put some effort into my google search. 

Results were positive: I have successfully backed up my blog* 

*By which I mean: everything that I have ever posted.  Not included: drafts, queue, likes, followers, following, comments, notes, chat. 

I followed this method (word by word), and now have a 450 MB folder on my computer with the name of my blog on it containing: 

1. Folder “Archive” (contains .html files listed by month) 2. Folder “Media” (contains gifs and images, mine has +1k files in it; might contain also audios but I have no way of confirming that because I’ve never reblogged an audio post from this blog) 3. Folder “Posts” (contains single .html files, each one a post; I have +4k files in it) 4. Folder “Theme” (contains only my avatar, but it might be a matter of if you have personalized themes or not) 5. .html file “Index” (by opening it it will give you the archive of your blog organized by month; clicking on a month will open up the archive for that month, and you’ll be able to read all the posts for that month as if you were on your blog**, except sans your theme graphic, with each page containing 50 posts)

**I can see gifs, links, embedded videos, tags, number of notes (but I can’t open up the notes, clearly), text is also correctly formatted. 

So yeah, in case anyone wants a very quick way to back up their blog, it took me less than 10 minutes. 

just somethin quick n cozy

China’s netizens are all in a twitter over the account of a carpenter who was commissioned to make a cinnabar red high-backed chair with the finials at the top to be “in the shape of dragons’ heads” (chéng lóngtóu 成龍頭).  Unfortunately, he misinterpreted the directions to mean “[in the shape of] Jackie Chan’s head” (“Chénglóng tóu 成龍頭”).

The thing you need to understand about Chinese names is that they all have meaning. And I don’t mean that in the sense of “if you trace the etymology back through two languages it has its roots in a Hebrew phrase that means “God is my ____” that many Western names have. I mean that in the sense of “almost all of these words are still in regular use today and my parents very literally named me “pretty [and] wise” in Chinese.

(Sidenote: This is why we get annoyed at made-up ‘Chinese’ names that just pull two random vaguely Chinese-sounding syllables together. It is blindingly obvious when it’s not a real name).

成 (chéng) means “to become”, “to turn into”. 龍 (lóng) is “dragon”. Thus, Jackie Chan’s Chinese stage name,  成龍 (Chénglóng), literally means “become dragon”. (頭 (tóu), of course, means “head”)  

(Further sidenote: This is actually a bit of a pun/reference. Specifically, it is a reference to Bruce Lee, whose stage name was 小龍 (Xiǎolóng), or, “Little dragon”. So Jackie’s chosen stage name means both “become dragon”, and “become [like] Bruce Lee”)

The other thing you need to know about Chinese is that we don’t put spaces between terms in written text.